International Peace Tour 1989

42nd International Peace Tour 1989 Warsaw-Berlin-Prague
Competition period	May 8-20, 1989
Stages	12 stages
overall length	1927 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Uwe Ampler 47:30:43 hours 2. Olaf Jentzsch    3. Zenon Jaskula
Scoring jerseys
Yellow jersey	Uwe Ampler
Mountain scoring	Uwe Ampler
Most active driver	Olaf Ludwig
Sprint scoring	Uwe Raab
versatility	Olaf Ludwig
Team ranking	Soviet Union
course
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The 42nd International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that took place from May 8th to 20th, 1989.

The 42nd edition of the International Peace Tour consisted of twelve individual stages and led over a total length of 1927 km from Warsaw via Berlin to Prague . The team winner was the USSR . The mountain stage won UWE AMPLER from the GDR.

A total of 106 drivers from 18 countries took part. Usually six men are provided per state. The teams from China and Italy only had five men. Originally, the tour was supposed to lead from Paris to Moscow and also see professional teams at the start. In December 1988, however, the International Professional Federation (FICP) canceled participation.

Participating nations were:

Poland Czechosl. Bulgaria France GDR Soviet Union

Netherlands Romania United States Syria FR Germany United Kingdom

People's Republic of China Mongolian People's Republic of Belgium Cuba Portugal Italy

Team squad of the German-speaking teams

GDR Uwe Ampler Thomas Barth Olaf Jentzsch Olaf Ludwig Uwe Raab Steffen Rein

BR Germany Ernst Christl Axel Engel Raphaël Rothermund Michael Rich Dominik Krieger Dieter Niehues

Details

Result
First	Uwe Ampler	ø 40.7 km / h	GDR
Second	Olaf Jentzsch	- 00:26 min.	GDR
Third	Zenon Jaskula	- 2:42 min.	Poland

stage	Start finish	Stage winner	Stage length	Travel time
01st stage	Around Warsaw	Jamolidin Abduschaparov Soviet Union	078 km	1:38:15
02nd stage	Warsaw - Łódź	Zbigniew saying Poland	140 km	3:23:36
03rd stage	Pabianice - Wrocław	Olaf Jentzsch GDR	198 km	4:51:37
04th stage	Wrocław - Poznań	Pavel Shumanov Bulgaria	187 km	4:04:12
05th stage	Poznań - Cottbus	Uwe Raab GDR	197 km	4:31:10
06th stage	Cottbus - hall	Olaf Ludwig GDR	203 km	5:37:42
07th stage	Halle - Berlin	Olaf Ludwig GDR	213 km	4:57:15
08th stage	Mahlow - Dresden	Uwe Raab GDR	197 km	4:50:37
09th stage	Dresden - Mladá Boleslav	Uwe Ampler GDR	167 km	4:16:15
10th stage	Mladá Boleslav - Trutnov	Olaf Jentzsch GDR	150 km	4:03:14
11th stage	Individual time trial in Trutnov	Uwe Ampler GDR	035 km	2:45:19
12th stage	Trutnov - Prague	Frank van Veenendaal Netherlands	162 km	4:27:58

literature

• Friedensfahrt 1989, Neues Deutschland, Berlin 1989, 34 pages

Web links

• Peace ride
• Sport-complete
• The history of the peace ride on cycling4fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 48/1988 . Berlin, S. 2 .